IMAGE: These are Macaca fuscata females monitored during the study. view more Credit: Lucie Rigaill Many human cultures associate the colour red with sexuality and fertility. Among nonhuman primates too, red skin coloration is thought to contribute to sexual attractiveness. Indeed, in certain species, females are drawn more to the most colourful males. Yet the link…
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Researchers at LSTM have taken significant steps in understanding the way that the anti-malarial drug primaquine (PQ) works, which they hope will lead to the development of new, safer and more effective treatments for malaria. The work, which was predominantly funded following an award from the Medical Research Council, has been carried out by the…
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IMAGE: Professor Till Bärnighausen Alexander von Humboldt University Professor Director, Heidelberg Institute of Global Health Heidelberg University Hospital and the Medical Faculty of Heidelberg view more Credit: Heidelberg University Healthcare in low- and middle-income countries is poorly prepared for the increasing number of high blood pressure (ie hypertension) disorders. More than two-thirds of all people affected…
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A survey of 93 people with 3q29 deletion syndrome reveals a distinct pattern of social disability and anxiety, even without a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder. The results were published online in Molecular Autism on July 16. Geneticists at Emory University School of Medicine teamed up with clinicians at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta’s Marcus Autism…
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Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology have published a review on serial femtosecond crystallography, one of the most promising methods for analyzing the tertiary structure of proteins. This technique has rapidly evolved over the past decade, opening new prospects for the rational design of drugs targeting proteins previously inaccessible to structural analysis.…
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IMAGE: Greg Medlock, PhD, of the University of Virginia School of Medicine, has received a prestigious grant to determine how best to grow gut microbes to fight disease and improve human… view more Credit: Dan Addison | UVA Health System A young scientist at the University of Virginia School of Medicine has received a prestigious grant…
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IMAGE: For the study, participants ate during a 15-minute snack break between 20 other health assessments at the Child Health CheckPoint, which looked at the health of 1800 children, aged 11-12 years,… view more Credit: MCRI A new study has found that offering children a wide variety and large quantities of snack food encourages them to…
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EVANSTON, Ill. — Either to check the time or waste time, people often look at their smartphones after waking in the middle of the night. While this acute burst of light does make it more difficult to fall back to sleep, a new Northwestern University study reports that it won’t interfere with the body’s overall…
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PHOENIX, Ariz., and BOSTON, Mass. — July 19, 2019 — A bone cancer known as osteosarcoma is genetically similar in dogs and human children, according to the results of a study published today by Tufts University and the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an affiliate of City of Hope. The findings could help break the…
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IMAGE: Aberrantly formed autophagosomes accumulate in neuron of an aged mouse. view more Credit: Andrea Stavoe, Penn Medicine; eLife PHILADELPHIA — Cells dispose of harmful «trash» through autophagy, a normal and necessary process in which aggregated proteins and dysfunctional structures are handled. If any part of this fails, waste builds up inside cells, eventually killing them.…
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